Last night, guard Evan Mathis tweeted out this receipt, purportedly from a hearty steakhouse dinner with drinks, that after tax and (three percent) tip, came out to a whopping $64,055.76. The caption: "Teaching rookies a lesson..."

The first sign something was up should have been the timing—sophomore tackle Lane Johnson hosted his own "rookie" dinner on Monday, and caught flak for the $17,000 bill—which, it later turned out, had been split a few ways.

But the biggest clue was the acrostic in Mathis's check, one nobody noticed until Adam Schefter pointed it out this morning. Read the first letter of each line.

I don't know how clever it is to post a thing, say it's real, and then 10 hours later reveal it's not (gotcha, I guess), especially when rookie dinners do actually happen across a league where most new players will wash out within a couple years. At the very least, wait 'til the thinkpieces come out before dropping the gag.